Trainers and facilitators
Sabita Banerji
Sabita is an international development professional with over 15 years’ experience of internal and external communications, programme learning, monitoring and evaluation. She worked with Oxfam GB for over 12 years, latterly with particular emphasis on HIV response programmes. She now works with a number of charities, Fairtrade organisations and campaigns, and holds a part-time marketing post at Oxford Brookes University.
She has supported development practitioners – as individuals, groups and organisations - all over the world, with learning, communications, knowledge management and monitoring and evaluation initiatives. Her approach is highly participatory, informative, imaginative and fun.
Bill Bruty
Bill Bruty has been a professional fundraiser since 1984 and worked as Director of External Affairs for BTCV, as Marketing Director for Children's Aid Direct and as Community Fundraising Manager for Scope. He has tutored in fundraising and management for the Directory of Social Change and the Open University Business School, and has delivered training in fundraising to over 200 clients, ranging from UNICEF UK and ActionAid to small community based agencies in the UK, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Uganda and Tanzania.
Since 2002 he has run his own business, Fundraising Training Ltd, which specializes in training people who are new to a career in fundraising. Bill provides strategic advice and mentoring to national organisations such as the National Union of Students, Diabetes UK, the Brooke and the Medical Foundation for Care of Victims of Torture.
John Cammack
John Cammack is an independent consultant and trainer. He was Head of international finance at Oxfam GB and Senior lecturer in accounting and financial management at Oxford Brookes University. His training and consultancy work includes financial management for non-specialists, training trainers, and programme and financial management reviews for southern partners. John has worked internationally with a range of relief and development agencies, including the Aga Khan Foundation, Amnesty International, Camfed, European Commission, Homeless International, Intrac, WaterAid and VSO. John is author of Building capacity through financialmanagement (Oxfam, 2007), Basic accountingfor small groups (Oxfam, 2003) and Financialmanagement for development (Intrac, 2000). John is a qualified accountant,manager and teacher and specialises in the non-profit sector. He holds a MSc in international development management and an MBA. www.johncammack.net
Ian Chandler
Ian Chandler is founder of The Pressure Group, a consultancy working with non-for-profit organisations to improve their effectiveness in advocacy, campaigning, communications and management. He has worked in advocacy for over 25 years, and has been Campaigns Manager for Oxfam GB and Media Director for Amnesty International. As a consultant, he has worked with over 70 leading NGOs in 47 countries in Europe, America, Asia, Africa, the Middle East and the Caribbean.
Eleanor Cozens
Eleanor Cozens has 20 years experience of working in the international development sector. She has been responsible for country programmes for CARE in Comoros and Iraq and for VSO in Sri Lanka and the Maldives. She has recently done in-depth work developing the principles and practice for Sightsavers International's programme partnership policy, including tools, guidelines and an organisational induction programme, training manual and materials.
Eleanor has worked with a wide range of partner organisations: government ministries and institutions, NGOs, disabled people's organisations and small community-based organisations. She has developed and delivered training courses for Sightsavers and VSO volunteers, with an emphasis on practical implications and examples. Eleanor now works as an independent consultant on a variety of assignments: evaluations, briefing papers, policy drafting, and facilitation, and she retains a strong interest in partnership working.
Harish Davda
Harish Davda has been in training and development for over 20 years. He has worked as a senior manager in an educational environment and taught extensively in colleges and a London-based business school.
He has recently delivered training in management, leadership, team development and project management to corporate and public sector managers in Nigeria, Dubai and Abu Dhabi. In the UK he has delivered management skills, strategy and leadership training to a wide variety of NGOs including Amnesty International, Greenpeace UK, and refugee organisations.
As well as his teacher training, Harish has a MBA and is a qualified Neuro-Linguistic Programming practitioner. He has just completed an e-book on project management.
Jonathan Ellis
Jonathan Ellis is Director of Policy and Development at the British Refugee Council. He is also author of Campaigning for Success - how to cope if you achieve your campaign goal (NCVO 2007), is an external adviser on NCVO's Certificate in Campaigning and leads training sessions on INTRAC's global advocacy courses. He is a member of NCVO's Campaigning Effectiveness advisory group and is a campaign coach for the Sheila McKechnie Foundation. He was for five years the Director of the Empty Homes Agency, an independent national charity, and before that was a campaign manager for OXFAM.
A qualified teacher, Jonathan has just become a visiting lecturer on the MA in political campaigning and reporting at City University.
Louisa Gosling
Louisa has worked in international development for over 20 years, including 10 years at Save the Children. During that time, drawing from experience of best practice, she developed practical toolkits for fieldworkers on the assessment, monitoring, review and evaluation of projects. This turned into a successful publication widely used by NGOs worldwide (Toolkits. A practical guide to planning, monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment, Save the Children, 2003). Louisa has run courses and acted as consultant on the project cycle, monitoring and evaluation for Bond and other organisations including, most recently, the University of Westminster and Riders for Health. She has also worked on advocacy projects for Save the Children and on public sector evaluations in the UK for the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations. She now works with WaterAid as an adviser on mainstreaming equity and inclusion into the organisation and its work.
Angela James
Angela runs the Bond EC Funding Advice Line, giving information and guidance on all aspects of applying and reporting to the European Commission. She also works freelance with NGOs in the UK, Europe and developing countries as a trainer and funding adviser. Before that she worked for several years in sub-Saharan Africa for the international development NGO ACORD, first as a manager of overseas development projects and then as fundraising co-ordinator dealing with a range of institutional donors, trusts, foundations and NGOs.
Greta Jensen
Greta has 20 years experience in technical and management consultancy for a variety of INGOs, working with education, environmental regeneration, appropriate technology and community development programmes, as well as development education initiatives in Europe. Clients have included the European Commission, Auroville International UK, Plan UK, Plan Pakistan, Y-Care, CAMFED, ACTSA and the Development Education Association. She draws on her Masters in Psychosynthesis Psychotherapy from Middlesex University to bring an experiential dimension to learning and has developed a unique process approach to logical framework analysis and project cycle management with groups of diverse stakeholders in the field.
Dee Jupp
Dee Jupp is a social development consultant who has lived and worked for extensive periods in Bangladesh and Jamaica, helping governments, NGOs, social movements and community-based organisations to adopt participatory approaches. She has led participatory research and training in Tanzania, Kenya, China, Indonesia, the Caribbean and Bangladesh. She is also an associate lecturer on the Open University's MSc course in Development Context and Practice.
Her approach to participation is both practical and innovative. Her recent work has focused on enhancing citizens' voice and understanding the perspectives of people living in poverty through immersion in rural villages. She has developed handbooks for community participation at all stages in of the project cycle in community driven programmes in Jamaica.
Maureen O'Flynn
Maureen is a freelance consultant who has worked in the development sector for over 25 years. She has extensive experience of both the development and humanitarian contexts.
Maureen's key areas of expertise include rights-based approaches to development, impact assessments, organisational development, change management and strategic planning. She has worked extensively in East Africa and South East Asia, as well as many shorter assignments in many other parts of the world. Her client base includes small, local NGOs, INGOs such as Save the Children, Action Aid and Oxfam, and UN agencies, such as UNICEF and UNHCR.
Simon Hearn and Simon Batchelor
Simon Hearn has been a Research Officer in ODI’s RAPID programme (Research and Policy in Development) since 2007. Specialising in the area of knowledge and learning, his role covers a wide range of topics from monitoring and evaluation to networks and online communities. His main responsibility is facilitator of the Outcome Mapping Learning Community – a global group of OM users, advocates, trainers, specialists and those interested in OM. He is also engaged in a range of research and advisory activities around knowledge and information management, monitoring and evaluation, network development, coordination and assessment and policy influencing.
Simon Batchelor is a director of Gamos Ltd, and has 30 years’ experience of the development sector. His role covers a wide range of topics including monitoring and evaluation, and the role of Information and Communication Technology
Costanza de Toma
Costanza is an independent consultant, trainer and facilitator. She has 10 years experience working in international development for NGOs including Marie Stopes International, Save the Children and Bond itself She has planned and implemented campaigns in the UK, the EU and internationally.
Costanza worked in Brussels for 4 years as assistant to an Italian MEP and heading the office of Marie Stopes International. She worked for Bond as EU Policy Officer and was elected to represent Bond at CONCORD for 2004-2007. Costanza has an insider's knowledge of EU institutions and first hand experience of successfully influencing the EU on the effectiveness of aid, the participation of civil society organisations, child rights, HIV/AIDS and sexual and reproductive health.
Benedict Southworth
Benedict Southworth has spent twenty years campaigning around the world on the environment, development and human rights. Until June 2010 he was Director of the World Development Movement. Before that he directed Amnesty Internationals campaign programme and headed Greenpeace Internationals global climate campaign. He now works as a freelance advisor with clients such as Action Aid, Our Life and the Pew Foundation.
Benedict runs training courses on campaigning and has delivered guest lectures at Westminster, Cardiff and Metropolitan Universities.
Jacinta Sweeney
Jacinta has more than ten years experience in international development. Three of these years were spent with VSO in Cameroon and Nigeria working on education and HIV and AIDS programmes, from where she moved on to a variety of roles within VSO internationally. Jacinta was then Advantage Africa's programme manager for disability and HIV/AIDS projects in Kenya and Uganda.
Following a period of freelance training design and delivery for organisations such as NIDOS in Scotland, VSO UK, Practical Action and The Brooke Animal Sanctuary, Jacinta is now Director of Training for StreetInvest, a UK-based charity working with street children in Africa. Jacinta has an MA in international development from the Institute for Development Policy and Management, University of Manchester and a PGCE in secondary education from the University of Glasgow.
Valli Yanni
Valli has been involved in international development since 1986, with experience in long term development projects in Egypt, Yemen and Ecuador.
Since 1995, she has been working independently in the areas of training, facilitation and consultancy with international NGOs including Oxfam, Plan International and Save the Children, academic institutions including Oxford Brookes University and Edinburgh University, and donor agencies including government bodies. Over the last few years, Valli has worked extensively in strengthening civil society through capacity building in the Middle East region.
Her main areas of expertise include project and programme evaluation using participatory techniques; strategic thinking and planning; governance and leadership skills; gender and development, cross-cultural communication, and health issues.
